Jim Thorpe police stopped Arturo Joaquin Marte and his coworkers as they drove to a construction job. They didn't give the driver a ticket, but detained the men and turned Joaquin Marte over to immigration authorities. Now Joaquin Marte claims in a federal lawsuit that the two officers illegally stopped the men because they are Latino.

An Allentown man who displayed a gun during a dispute with a neighbor claims police arrested him without a warrant and ransacked his home in a warrantless search for weapons they mistakenly believed he owned, according to a federal lawsuit.

Lehigh County' paper ballots tackled uncertainty about the integrity of electronic voting systems but raised constitutional concerns about the right to vote secretly, The Pennsylvania ACLU director says voters shouldn't have to ask for privacy, as they did in Lehigh County.

A Walnutport woman was sent to Lehigh County jail after a urine test indicated she had violated her parole by drinking alcohol. She claims in a federal lawsuit that Lehigh County officials held her for three weeks after a second test came back clean.

Keith W. Anthony claimed he was assaulted by a firefighter and stunned with a Taser by police while he was restrained and placed in an ambulance after suffering a seizure in 2013. The city agreed this month to pay Anthony $250,000 to settle his claims before the case was scheduled to go to trial next month.

Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom's parent company has settled a lawsuit by a black Philadelphia man who claims security officers racially profiled him last summer, telling him he matched the description of a pickpocket before escorting him from the park.